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The Opioid Epidemic: How Did it Get This Bad?
As waves of coronavirus variants keep communities on constant alert, another epidemic has continued its relentless growth. In 2021 alone, more than 100,000 people in the United States died from a drug overdose, a 15% increase over the previous year.